Fire hall

Here’s a tour of The Meadows Fire Rescue Services Station 26 during the grand opening on this day (Oct 24) in 2009. The building has both a fire department and EMS station on location as separate units. The ribbon was cut by MLA Carl Benito, Councillors Dave Thiele & Amarjeet Sohi, MP Mike Lake, and Mayor Stephen Mandel. One of the firefighters take us on a tour, followed by a EMS paramedic back in this 2009 rewind….

While Ferris Bueller had a day off, Nathan Buhler might be having the time of his life at Calgary’s Fire Hall #1. Or is he? He dropped his phone into the Bow River and a man paddleboarding later came across it under 4 feet of water, charged it up, turned it on to see if it was working, and turned it into the fire hall. Naming the phone Héctor Chavez, the fire department decided to have…